Warning/Author's Note: I absolutely, positively, will NOT tolerate plagiarism of this fic, or any other fics, at all. I have discovered a startling amount of stories, which do NOT credit me as so-called "inspiration" (though it's a blatant rip-off), and resemble my own in too many ways for me to count.

While Yu Yu Hakusho is NOT my own work, the plots and everything else contained within my stories, INCLUDING THE TIME THEY TOOK TO WRITE, are my intellectual property. That means My Intellectual Property © Zelia Theb !

Yes, it is an extreme form of flattery. But when I really start seeing people rip-off my all time favorite creation I've ever made EVER (Huminshou) I get incredibly upset. Yes, plot-ideas can overlap, but when there are instances and events that occur, which are way too similar and repeatedly happen (as all plots can have different events that stay within them), that is plagiarism.

Do not make Zelia sad! If this continues I will not only report it (including links and other links to other archive sites), I will leave altogether.

That being said, please enjoy my wonderful expression of feeling in this chapter. And yes, the boys have to kill time before the big party.

Disclaimer: Yu Yu Hakusho © Yoshihiro Togashi.

Mischief 101

By Zelia Theb

IV: Nooo!

"Yusuke, what is that you have there?" Kurama asked his roommate. The detective looked up from his reading (yes, reading) and offered the magazine in his lap up to him.

"It's a fan-fiction magazine," Yusuke explained as Kurama leafed through the pages of the thick publication, "They have these in the school library and it's basically a collection of this year's fan-fiction written by students under pseudonyms."

"Pseudonyms?" the redhead perked up. While waiting for his friend to answer, he sat down on his own bed, propping up his pillow against the wall and leaning back to lounge.

"Yeah, you know, they're names…"

"I know what they are, silly," he smiled, "I was just teasing you." A light smile crossed the other boy's lips as well, and he found himself picking up his own pillow and crawling over into Kurama's bed.

"See?" the teen said, using a finger which was previously fooling with his dark hair to point on the page, "They put all the summaries in this little index thing, and then you can flip to the page number listed next to it."

"Ah, and they're categorized alphabetically according to series!" Kurama noted, "This should keep us busy until Kino's party." Yusuke leaned into him, careful not to rest his head on his ally's shoulder, but enough so that he could have an excuse to be in a near cuddle with him.

Just because the magazine was published by some school club known as "The Universe's Messengers", didn't necessarily mean that the Universe itself was behind the insidious plot to put Yusuke and Kurama together (nor did it imply that the magazine itself was published merely as a parody on such works either).

"Uhm…" the clever teen stuttered, "What's your favorite series, Yusuke?"

"The Poltergeist Report." On cue, Kurama flipped to the page quickly and began scanning the summaries. He was secretly hoping that Yusuke would answer that way; because that was his favorite series as well. It would eventually give them something else to share with each other, although with the way that the detective was leaning on him, he might not even need to discuss the anime at all.

"They don't…edit these…do they…" the language conscious boy observed.

"Looks like it's hot-off-the-press…" Yusuke added, "But I know that there is some good stuff." However, his roommate did not respond; his face was busy doing something that it has never done before; and that was to quirk into an expression of disgust, shock, disbelief, annoyance, and laughter. Five different emotions meant that the face-tugging was going in five different directions. It was not an attractive look for the fox.

"What is it?"

"Allow me to read number forty," Kurama sighed, "It says, 'The boys come to visit me at my school and what sort of…' Uh, I believe it's supposed to say 'chaos' but instead it says 'chase'…" Red bangs moved back and forth as he shook the utter stupidity out of his head and continued, "…'Ensues. I'…Goodness, did this person actually write this in their summary?"

"Where're ya at?" the chocolate-eyed boy inquired, answered by Kurama pointing to a statement in the center of the left page.

"They wrote, 'I suck at summaries, better sum'… Sum? Oh, they must mean summary, not like the result of numeric digits being added together…"

"Eer, I found a good one, turn to page seventy-one." Relieved, the logical long-locked teen did as commanded, only to be appalled by what graced the top of the page. It read:

Tsukihime here! You might also know me as the craziest girl on the third floor! Hey third floor! Wee! In this fic, I'll have the fire-wizard Kuriei fall in love with the hero Kosuke Ureshi!

Kuriei: Hn. Just get on with it.

"Close the magazine! Close it!" Yusuke exclaimed frantically, pressuring Kurama to once more follow his command. The publication was closed and then tossed onto the floor with a soft plop. The boys exhaled in unison, relieved that their excursion into fandom was over.

"My goodness," Kurama panted, chest rising and falling with his heavy breaths, "That was the most awful adventure in reading that I have ever taken. I'm not certain that I'm up to finding that single good fiction right now…" Thoughts of the impending birthday celebration danced in his head; the dance being horribly unrhythmic and unchoreographed. Simply put, the boy did not want to go.

The words struck him as unusual. Yusuke found himself laughing, and remarked, "You take adventures in reading?" After hearing an irritated grumble radiate in Kurama's throat, Yusuke chuckled some more until interrupted by a 'had-it-coming' tackle, which threw him backside down onto his friend's bed.

The fox-demon's fingers ran along the pinned teen's sides like delicate hamsters. Giggles and protests to halt the tickling erupted from Mount Urameshi(1), but they were ignored as the action continued.

"D-don't…make…m-me…lick…you…!" Yusuke threatened, squirming beneath Kurama's lithe form.

"Oh, I'm afraid that tactic will no longer work against me," Kurama declared, daring the detective to try.

And he did, of course. At first it was just random tongue flicking upwards, advances which the fox was able to dodge easily, but then it turned into something much more. Acting as if he was a child catching snowflakes in his mouth (and making a noise like the doctor had just made him say, "Ahh!"), he moved his head around like a conjured rattle snake, still unable to nail Kurama (in both meanings).

"Ahhhh!" Yusuke's voice trilled into Botan's ears (her knocks having been ignored, she had just entered the dorm). So of course she called out to the boys, who promptly stopped their play, and greeted the ferrywoman-turned-temporary-student with the guiltiest of gazes.

"So this is why neither of you could answer the door?" interrogated the girl accusingly. She pondered yelling at them to get a room, but technically, she was standing in it.

The boys composed themselves and waited for Botan to explain her sudden presence, hoping that it had nothing to do with another case. It was rather nice to be playful and have fun; instead of what they previously knew their human lives to be.

"Well," she began, "It's about a student named Katsu Sukikino. He's having a party tonight where…"

"Oh dear," Kurama suddenly addressed the other boy on the bed, "Kino's friends will come by looking for us soon. We don't want to be expelled!"

"Damn it!" Yusuke leapt from the bed, "You're right! That stupid lughead's gonna get it tonight, I swear…"

Botan's pressing and urgent news was never heard, because there was no one there to listen. The two allies left their dorm so fast, one would have thought that a bomb had been dropped inside (and though Yusuke wouldn't admit it, everyone knew that he was the culprit).

"Well, well, well, look who decided to show up!" the gruff and familiar voice of Kino (also known as Katsu Sukikino) announced upon seeing one of his boys let Yusuke and Kurama into the party.

The two superhuman teens were amazed that a large dorm such as this could exist so conveniently in the boy's dormitory wing, and that it was predictably designed for such a party. People littered the room, some in their uniforms (like Yusuke and Kurama), and some in casual clothing. Heck, some of them weren't even from the school, but managed to sneak in without a visitor's pass. Another convenient incident? The music was so loud and the party was so noisy, yet no teachers or school staff were alerted, nor seemed to care about it.

(The Universe swears that it has nothing to do with such random, favorable, and opportune settings and events. Really, it does.)

"Looks like you two can mingle for now," the birthday boy said, "But I expect a gift later, Minamino. I can dig if Urameshi here wants to stay and watch."

"Oh, please," Kurama retorted, scathing, "I am here and that is the agreement."

"Fine," shrugged the blonde, "Whatever. I always get what I want, Shuichi. And so do my friends, which happens to be just about everyone here, got that?" The host walked away, cackling as if there was some sort of secret that everyone in the room knew that they didn't.

"I swear I'm gonna pound that guy," the one with slicked hair seethed under his breath, "I just hope that he doesn't catch sight of Botan anytime soon…"

Kurama suspended that thought by pulling Yusuke by his wrist into a rather discreet corner, allowing both of them to keep an eye on Kino, the door, and the other guests. Once in place, they faced each other and entwined their fingers, wondering why they came to such a clown parade (words first heard out of Hiei's mouth when referring to the Dark Tournament in some passing conversation).

It was then that the fox-demon's keen ears landed on the most interesting of conversations:

"Whaddya mean?"

"Word is on the street that Urameshi's some punk kid with a tough rep."

"Yusuke," Kurama whispered, urging the boy to follow his green eyes across the room and watch Kino, "If you listen hard enough, or read their lips…They're talking about you."

"Gotcha," Yusuke murmured lightly. Normally, Kurama would not care so much, though perhaps what Botan had to say earlier had something to do with his awareness?

"I bet that they're just fakin' it, Kino."

"Why? They're pretty convincin' to me, I'll just need one of ya to distract Urameshi…"

"No man, I mean, another thing I heard was that Urameshi is going out with some girl from his old school, and he's seen with her a lot. Plus that Minamino kid went to a different school, and he was always having chicks fly to him like crazy."

Yusuke missed the next portion of the conversation due to the dynamics of the music that had begun to play, but definitely caught on to the fact that they were being watched. The boys must have had the same thoughts, because in that instant, they stared back at each other, each wanting to ask the other for permission to do what they wanted to do next.

"They've caught on that this is not genuine," Kurama softly said, eyes averted downwards at the detective's lips.

"Well, we kinda never made it official that we were fake boyfriends. I mean, I just implied it one day, that's it." Self-consciousness overcame Yusuke for once, and he found himself running his tongue over his mouth; he didn't want it to be dry for some reason.

"So…" The redhead nervously trailed off, hoping that the open statement would leave the other boy allowance to finish the thought.

"So…" Yusuke mimicked, suggesting that his thoughts were on the same wavelength.

"So…should we?"

"…Should we?"

"Umm…" Anxious teeth lightly bit nervous lips.

"Right…well…uhh…" Yusuke figured that jibberish was a good way to answer jibberish. And that was when he made the first move.

Firm arms drew Kurama in for a close embrace, and freshly moistened lips made contact with the blushing skin of his cheek (after the long-as-heck hair was brushed aside).

"There…that wasn't as nerve-racking as expected," the kissed one smiled awkwardly. They both knew (but didn't know that the other one also knew) that they wanted it to progress further, so of course, each one tried to formulate some sort of plan to let that happen.

"No, it's really nothing, so let's just watch Kino watch us." They held each other even closer, and Yusuke found himself kissing that same cheek again, this time moving closer to the side of Kurama's mouth.

Kino, however, found himself (Many people were on the path to self-discovery that day) wondering why Minamino and Urameshi would be glaring at him through their peripheral vision while cuddling together.

Just like a challenge to send one's projected urine the farthest, Yusuke had spotted Kino's dare to prove the validity of their fake relationship, and began trailing light kisses around that same side of Kurama's face. And after one teasing kiss that threatened to breach the jawline and delve below it to the neck, the boys' acting debut came to a quick halt.

"Goodness!" Botan exclaimed (not loud enough for Kino to hear). Finding an opportunity to use her previously devious line, she added, "Shouldn't you two be getting a room?"

Yusuke had literally jumped at the sound of the girl's voice (and the overuse of what seemed to be the word of the day). It was only his most natural of reactions when he was caught doing something. Thankful for the dark ambient of the room, Yusuke turned around without shame, only to see that Botan had done what other students had done, and sneaked Kuwabara into the school.

"Kuwabara, what the hell?" was his only greeting.

"Yusuke," Botan began, "Let me explain…" And she proceeded to do so, informing Yusuke that Kino was possessed by a small outlaw demon, but didn't know it yet. The only way to knock the demon out of the kid, was to literally, knock him out. It was very similar to Yusuke's first demon encounter when he was brought back to life. The two students then explained that Kino would have them expelled if they fought anymore, but Kurama did not forget to mention that he had sensed the evil aura too, and that he was unsure of how to react to it.

"Botan, why not just have us blast the demon guy away and then you guys can get those Spirit World Memory Wipers to memory wipe everyone?" the detective proposed.

"Because they're on vacation!" Botan asserted, a fist pumped into the air. She then calmed down her bubbling and happy outburst and assured them, "Don't worry, you can't get expelled from here. Koenma will make sure of that."

"Well hot damn, Botan! If you'd have told me that I would punched the crap out of this creep a long time ago!" The boy began rolling up his sleeves, but his tall friend; the seemingly left-out one of four; stopped him.

"Urameshi, Botan said that ya need to make him start the fight with you, and make sure to distract him so that she and I can nab the little guy when he pops outta the kid's mouth."

"Damn it, why must there ALWAYS be some stupid moronic plan!"

"Well!" the Grim Reaper pressed, "Get a move on! I'll go get in place, and Kuwabara will stay here with you two!

Recalling his earlier thought, and pondering the idea that it was actually foreshadowing on his part; the Spirit Detective went to rebel against Botan's action, fearing that Kino would start hitting on her too. However, the attractive girl had already disappeared into the crowd, and was well on her way to the celebrated boy of the night.

To Be Continued…

(1) Hiei and Kurama are the names of actual mountains in Japan. In fact, Mount Hiei is mentioned as being the location of Makoto Shishio's hideout in Rurouni Kenshin. Now, saying that you're taking a trip to the mountain can certainly be a hoot. "I'm going to Mount Hiei!".

Author's Note:

Thanks for reading! I would absolutely love it if you guys reviewed and told me what you thought of the chapter, the underlying themes running throughout the story, and possibly gave some pointers. Heck, feel free to tell me what parts made you laugh, and which parts made you so sad that you'll never forget it. Either way, I would just love to see a really meaningful review, so don't be shy! Go for it!

Things to expect in the next chapter: The conclusion of the party, and a time jump to the next mini-arc of romance, parodies, and Kurama reverting from his teenage human side to his old, cold, and demonlike self.

Oh yes, and please do not steal this fiction or the repeating ideas and cute events within it. Thank you!

Zelia